Word: interventionist
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...first overt act by Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...
Pepper, long a New Deal spokesman, is also noted for the pronounced internationalism of his political views. He led the Senatorial fight for the passage of the Lend-Lease and Selective Service acts and was an ardent, interventionist before Pearl Harbor...
Pepper, nationally known for his part in the Fight For Freedom movement, was an ardent interventionist before Pearl Harbor. He is expected to explain his plans and his stand on the issue of future world security and the part that will be taken by the United States...
...biceps are nearly as firm as in his favorite photograph. A few years ago, in the midst of the interventionist-isolationist debate, he knocked down a husky 40-year-old who cursed him on a Manhattan street...
...stuck to the tradition of free speech and made it stick. More powerful pressure groups have tried to run him off the air than have attacked any other commentator. He has beaten all of them, including America First, which had his sponsor (Purol) on the ropes with their anti-interventionist mail. He has insisted on saying what he wanted to, and his audience (about 10,000,000) has forgiven his mistakes and gone on listening. His long-range batting average is pretty good...